Adam Sterns, of Glencoe, browses the non-fiction shelves in the Glencoe Public Library basement. | File

Glencoe Public Library Director Peggy Hamil talks to Daniel Um, of Inverness, president of Builders Land, Inc. which is renovating the library basement to add a conference study room and staff room to be completed by March. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Judy Skolnik (left), of Glencoe, and Michelle Wilson, who works at the readers' services desk at the Glencoe Public Library, look for books in the library basement. | FIle

Daniel Um (right), of Inverness, president of Builders Land, Inc., and Carpenter Joe Michniak, of Palos Heights, look over plans for a space to be renovated into a conference study room surrounded by glass at the Glencoe Public Library. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun

Chicago Kris Piczura, of Chicago, works on a project to renovate the basement of the Glencoe Public Library on Monday. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Daniel Um (left) of Inverness, president of Builders Land, Inc., and carpenters Joe Michniak (center) of Palos Heights and Stanley Gancarczyk look over plans for a space to be renovated into a staff room at the Glencoe Public Library by March. | Ryan Page

Daniel Um, of Inverness, president of Builders Land, Inc., looks over plans for a space to be renovated into a staff room at the Glencoe Public Library by March. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Judy Skolnik (left), of Glencoe, and Michelle Wilson, who works at the readers' services desk at the Glencoe Public Library, look for books on Monday in the library basement where construction has begun (background) on a new conference study room which sh